Gus Kappler Is Still Angry
Echoes of the Vietnam War
English - September 15, 2023 15:04 - 46 minutes - 42.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 85 ratingsHistory Society & Culture 1950s 1960s 1970s the wall vietnam era vietnam veterans memorial vietnam war war Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Gus Kappler laughs a lot. If you met him in line at the grocery store, you’d never guess that he spent a year in Vietnam as a real-life Hawkeye Pierce performing unimaginable surgeries on young men with unspeakable injuries. It made him angry, and that hasn’t changed. What has changed is the way he understands his anger… and how he deals with it.